Carla Gugino

The One 2001

Let me be the first to say that I enjoy Trevor Rabin's work. It's never been the most complexly orchestrated music, but for what it is, it works well. Before I get started, I want to establish that I haven't seen the film, so my review is focusing on the music as a listening experience separate from the movie. With The One, Trevor Rabin doesn't venture too far out of his circle of familiarity; taking his The Sixth Day and ...

The Space Between Us 2017

In this interplanetary adventure, a space shuttle embarks on the first mission to colonize Mars, only to discover after takeoff that one of the astronauts is pregnant. Shortly after landing, she dies from complications while giving birth to the first human born on the red planet - never revealing who the father is. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Gardner Elliot - an inquisitive, highly intelligent boy who reaches the age of 16 having only met 14 people in his ...

Race to Witch Mountain 2009

Before the sneak preview of "Race to Witch Mountain," they had a little quiz show and gave away T-shirts. One question: "Who plays Jack Bruno"? Half the audience roared, "The Rock"! Not one lonely vote for Dwayne Johnson. The other famous movie "Rock" was born Roy Harold Scherer Jr. It's a name that stays in the mind.
I think Dwayne Johnson has a likable screen presence and is a good choice for an innocuous family entertainment like this, and also he ...

Spy Kids 2001

Carmen Cortez, Alexa Vega, and her brother, Juni, Daryl Sabara, reckon their parents, Gregorio and Ingrid, Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino, are dead boring. What they Don`t know is that Mum and Dad are retired spies, and when they`re called back into service to help solve the mysterious disappearances of several current spies, the kids have to fly to the rescue when their parents become victims of the plot of a sinister mastermind...Like the Austin Powers films, Spy Kids is ...

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

If you were to rate all family movies containing CG animals on a scale from 1-10 of tolerability, where 1 is an excruciating ordeal like Air Bud and 10 is a touching Pixar masterpiece like Up, Mr. Popper’s Penguins would fall right in the middle. While it’s by no means a classic, the movie does have heart, thanks mostly to the undeniably cute penguins -- which, for perhaps the first time in animation history, are never visually distinguishable as fake. ...

Night at the Museum

Hey, I’m as surprised as you are. Based on the trailers this looked horrifically one dimensional and although it is in fact one dimensional that dimension is occasionally funny (and of course kid friendly). If you see it with a young human they will be happy and you won’t be angry all over. That’s a holiday miracle!
The concept of Night at the Museum is that the museum where Ben Stiller works night security comes alive at night. It’s pretty simple, ...

San Andreas

We didn’t have the highest expectations for San Andreas in the science department, but what we got from Hollywood shattered our expectations with a hefty portion of bad science, a cliché story line, and a dose of sexism that should be considered lethal for the box office in the year 2015.
Ray, the film’s protagonist, is played by Dwayne Johnson f.k.a “The Rock”, a fearless, overly-aerobicized LA search and rescue worker with helicopter piloting skills to put any experienced pilot to ...